Vietnamese embassies overseas welcome Tet

The Vietnamese embassy in Laos held the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Golf Tournament in Vientiane on January 23.

The Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Ta Minh Chau, and more than 40 amateur golfers played for more than 5 hours.

Laos
Vice State President Bunnhang Volachit said that the tournament was to
welcome the success of the 11th National Party Congress and the
traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet) of Vietnam.

He praised
the tournament, which he said, aims to promote mutual understanding and
the special relationship between Vietnam and Laos.

On the same day the Vietnamese embassy in the UK held a meeting to celebrate Tet.

At
the event, Vietnam’s Ambassador Tran Quang Hoan informed the overseas
Vietnamese (OVs) of the successful grand celebrations for the 1,000th
anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the success of the 11th National Party
Congress and the fulfilment of nation’s tasks in its role as ASEAN
Chair.

The Vietnamese Peoples Association in the UK thanked other
OVs for donating hundreds of millions of VND to assist central flood
victims.

The President of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society
Len Aldis and the President of the UK non-governmental organisation
Medical and Scientific Aid for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Peter Lacy
also pledged continued assistance for Agent Orange victims and poor
children in Vietnam.

Earlier, on January 22, the Vietnamese
consulate general in Hong Kong and Macau, China, held a get-together for
the staff of Vietnamese representative agencies and hundreds of OVs to
welcome Tet.

Vietnam’s Consul General Pham Cao Phong said that
the economic, cultural and educational cooperation between Vietnam and
Hong Kong and Macau has developed strongly, with Vietnamese export
revenues to Hong Kong rising by almost 60 percent from 2009.

On
this occasion, the consulate general also presented certificates of
merit from the State Committee for overseas Vietnamese to outstanding
OVs for their active contributions to the community’s development./.